Hi, try following function - will get existence of a server side file.
##----------------------------------------------------------- file_exists
function file_exists( str)
define
str char(100),
file_found smallint
whenever error continue
call channel::open_file("xx000FileExistTest", str, "r")
if status < 0 then
# error: either file does not exist or is in use
let file_found = FALSE
else
let file_found = TRUE
end if
call channel::close("xx000FileExistTest")
whenever error call error_trap
return file_found
end function
Regards,
Bryce Stenberg.
Harness Racing New Zealand computer department,
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 3:55 p.m.
Subject: [fourjs-users] Checking for existence of a file File Exists
We are using Informix IDS 7.something and 4GL (sorry forgot to get
version numbers) and I want to check for the existence of a text file
before I run a procedure. I was looking for file handling
kind of stuff
and could not find any. Anybody got any ideas on how one can go about
checking for a file?
If necessary, I can get the version numbers, but I think the Front end
wtk 2.0.01 (?), database server( 7.2?) and 4GL programming version
(9.xxx?)
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